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"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, [1] "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity. It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year. The poem was included in Hughes's first book, a collection of poems, also entitled The Weary Blues. [2]
Good Night, Sleep Tight is a major children's poetry anthology collated by Ivan Jones and Mal Lewis Jones. [1] It contains 366 poems by world famous and lesser known poets, including some of the editors' own poems. There is one poem for each night of the year. [1]
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
Mistakes happen on live TV, and Cher’s Today show flub was nothing short of hilarious. Cher, 78, accidentally dropped an F-bomb on air while chatting with Hoda Kotb about her new book, Cher: The ...
Cher made a memorable appearance on the Today show, alright.. While sitting down with Hoda Kotb on the NBC news series for a wide-ranging live interview on Tuesday, Nov. 19 to promote her new ...
After college, Greenfield began writing poetry and songs in the 1950s while working in a civil service job. In 1962, after years of submitting her work, her first poem was finally accepted for publication. In 1972, she published the first of her 48 children's books, including picture books, novels, poetry and biographies.
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
"Vespers" is a poem by the British author A.A. Milne, first published in 1923 by the American magazine Vanity Fair, and later included in the 1924 book of Milne's poems When We Were Very Young when it was accompanied by two illustrations by E.H. Shephard. It was written about the "Christopher Robin" persona of Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne.